ound a vessel of pirates,
comrades of his own, lately come from Jamaica.

To these he related all his adversities and misfortunes, and withal
desired they would fit him with a boat and twenty men, with which
company alone he promised to return to Campechy, and assault the ship
that was in the river, by which he had been taken fourteen days before.
They presently granted his request, and equipped him a boat accordingly.
With this small company he set out to execute his design, which he
bravely performed eight days after he left Golpho Triste; for being
arrived at Campechy, with an undaunted courage, and without any noise,
he assaulted the said ship: those on board thought it was a boat from
land that came to bring contraband goods, and so were in no posture of
defence; which opportunity the pirates laying hold of, assaulted them so
resolutely, that in a little time they compelled the Spaniards to
surrender.

Being masters of the ship, they immediately weighed anchor and set sail
from the port, lest they should be pursued by other vessels. This they
did with the utmost joy, seeing themselves possessors of so brave a
ship; especially Portugues, who by a second turn of fortune was become
rich and powerful again, who was so lately in that same vessel a
prisoner, condemned to be hanged. With this purchase he designed greater
things, which he might have done, since there remained in the vessel so
great a quantity of rich merchandise, though the plate had been sent to
the city: but while he was making his voyage to Jamaica, near the isle
of Pinos, on the south of Cuba, a terrible storm arose, which drove
against the Jardines rocks, where she was lost; but Portugues, with his
companions, escaped in a canoe, in which he arrived at Jamaica, where it
was not long ere he went on new adventures, but was never fortunate
after.

Nor less considerable are the actions of another pirate who now lives at
Jamaica, who on several occasions has performed very surprising things.
He was born at Groninghen in the United Provinces. His own name not
being known, his companions gave him that of Roche Brasiliano, by reason
of his long residence in Brasil: hence he was forced to fly, when the
Portuguese retook those countries from the Dutch, several nations then
inhabiting at Brasil (as English, French, Dutch, and others), being
constrained to seek new fortunes.

This person fled to Jamaica, where, being at a stand how to get his
living, he ente